A tech bro on acid is just a tech bro on acid.

In his Prison Notebooks, written under the repression of Italian Fascist regime, Antonio Gramsci said politics is downstream of culture But while politics may be downstream of culture, culture is downstream of rapport. If you don’t have rapport, then culture ends up being about difference.

Is sharing too much of a threat to the global economy, or too small to make a difference? Both critiques are trapped in the mindset of scale. As if everything has to or is going to happen all at once. It doesn’t. 📺 Watch, stream, and subscribe Team Human now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGF...

I'm doing a one-evening event in London on my way back from a thing. July 1. Come if you can! dandelion.events/e/x7o1n

The Genesis P-Orridge documentary is coming out next week. It's all about magic in difficult times... David Hershkovitz and I are doing a conversation following the premiere: www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/s...

I run a Media Studies MA program at CUNY/Queens, and the number of international applications has dropped precipitously. I assume it's fear of being here on a student visa, but wondering if anyone else at a grad program and is noticing the same, and how bad? We're at 10-20% of normal.

How can mystery and safety help us build stronger communities? Radha Agrawal, author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again on a new episode of Team Human. 📺 Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Vg...

How can we break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again? Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker, joins me on a new episode of Team Human. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/H7VgvXYYh-I 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts: www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/315...

Doing a free online talk for CUNY in three minutes, here: www.cuny.edu/research/res...

I was thrilled to join the brilliant Doug @rushkoff.com on his Team Human podcast to say things that TV news people rarely if ever say about TV news... ...and, of course, to discuss The Fucking News!

A public school district is considering whether to ban my book on tech billionaires, Survival of the Richest, for violating Trump's order on ridding DEI from schools. (I do not argue for giving tech bros equity/inclusion, so I'm not sure what the fuss would be about...) patch.com/illinois/lag...

My great friend Mandy Keifetz's astoundingly well-written novel, Flea Circus, is now available in a new ebook edition: www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

Can America inform itself through journalism? I asked @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social, Founder of The Fucking News, to discuss the question Walter Lippmann and John Dewey debated a century ago on a new episode of Team Human. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8M4...

"I don't believe that the apocalypse is around the corner. I believe that even if everything is hell, even if everything is shit, that we keep living and we keep finding joy and beauty in it." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on a new episode of Team Human. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojJk...

I know it feels less exciting than what's going on in DC, but here's the patient person's response: www.eventbrite.com/cc/mutual-ai...

Hey Berlin! I'm doing a reading next month My book Survival of the Richest hit #10 on German Amazon last night. First time I've seen a number like that in a long time. (Maybe people are coming to see that those tech billionaires may be out for themselves...) bit.ly/4hySoA0

SXSW event announced! "Weirding the Digital: An Invocation." Part speech, part sigil, I'm going to try to help us set a new course. schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/...

Coming to Indianapolis for a (free) talk and a visit. blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2025/01...

I'd be happy with Facebook eliminating content moderation if it *also* eliminated its algorithmic content delivery. If it stopped selecting and editing content in the manner of a publication, then it would not have to follow journalistic guidelines. But FB is no less a publication than the NYT.

"Facebook will also be moving its trust and safety and content moderation team from California to Texas."

Yeah. I'm the last guest on Chris's special show about disinformation, journalism, and public opinion. Very validating way to end the year.

Corleone-Style Diplomacy open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff... @rushkoff.com is one of my best bestie - our ways of thinking have similar quirks and wrinkles and ruffles, and I recommend this post as well as anything else he writes.

I'm facilitating a town hall meeting in Soho Tuesday evening to engage together about "what now?" - followed by some great musical performances. The RSVP is open to anyone who follows this account: hello.cx/rsvp/cx-town...

Somehow, Oz feels like the scariest one yet.

i strongly believe you should start with reposting this bsky.app/profile/andy...

Okay, I'm back on "social media." Let's see if I can do it this time without getting so sickened. I will employ tougher skin and better discretion. Fingers crossed, for us all.

We're debuting Team Human in Real Time, live streamed, this Wednesday April 24 at 1pm. Live call-in, write-in, discussion. Go to teamhuman.fm/live when it happens. Send questions or topics you want discussed in advance to [email protected]

Has anybody else noticed sudden, rather severe decline of basic skills at banks? I've got a Chase account and the number of errors, like missed payments, has increased. I should be at a credit union, anyway, so this is good reason to make the effort.

This is more a ExTwitter type question, but may as well try: I'm going to be in Sioux Falls South Dakota Sunday-Tuesday. Anybody there? I'm doing a talk at SD State: www.linkedin.com/events/nesse...

I'm supposed to go to a dinner/meeting tonight with some folks from Mastodon about keeping that platform alive and well and non-profit. Do people here use Mastodon as well? I am at the stage where I simply forget to log into a network for weeks or months at a time. It's hard when there are many.

My first link, to a new piece and monologue about how some of us mistook fractals for nature, and models for reality. rushkoff.substack.com/p/the-model-...

Hey all. Hoping to actually make this the place I come to. So many streams. It’d be nice to have just one. Here’s something to share that made my month: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

At Wired Italia’s #wnf23, I had the chance to be in stage with two of my fav humans in tech this past weekend: Douglas Rushkoff and Cory Doctorow to talk longterminism, big tech billionaires and the many crises of the Internet. Video here: www.wired.it/video/watch/...